PARIS (Reuters) - Funding to combat malaria must be more than tripled if the mosquito-borne disease which kills nearly a million people a year is to be fought effectively, health campaigners said on Thursday. Presenting a report covering the past decade, the Roll Back Malaria Partnership said a jump in financing had helped to contain the disease but more needed to ...

A booming black market in African ivory linked to Asian crime syndicates may scupper efforts by Zambia and Tanzania to hold a one-off sale of tusks, experts and delegates at a UN wildlife trade meeting say. At its last gathering in 2007, the UN-backed Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) voted for a nine-year moratorium on exports of ...

A Zambian priest arrested last week on suspicion of calling for the removal of President Rupiah Banda's government was released on bail on Monday amid public protest over his detention. "I understand the charge and plead not guilty," Bwalya said before a packed courtroom in the city of Kitwe, north of the capital Lusaka. Magistrate Mercy Makubalo set Bwalya ...

Tracking the wounded elephant to its death bed was easy for the ranger. Hit by a poison arrow, the huge mammal could only drag its hind leg, creating a wide gash across the bush. Poachers' footprints were all around the kill, but the hunters did not have time ...